Yeah, now that Cryptic has Neverwinter basically launched, and CO is just a cash cow. 2 years ago, however, it would have been perfect to come out. High playerbase post-Free to play, a slew of new content coming(Although, to be honest, that wasn't really "Content".), ect.
Well yeah, they pretty much stole the code from CoX, implemented into STO, and then put it in Neverwinter, however we still don't have a bloody Foundry system in Champions Online. ((WHY!?!?!?)
No, it shouldn't in there. Glad it's gone, gets rid of the idiots who want to play Foundry Farming Simulator 2013 instead of Neverwinter. Won't stop people from making "The Ultimate Grindinator 9,001" for people who want to do that kind of thing, though.
Hopefully not, people who cheat the system and create a mission like that should not have the chance to potentially do it again. No offense to you and everything, but the game is free...create a new account if you MUST have the ability to use the Foundry, but don't create a mission that makes it easy to grind/level, farm…
Yeah..got hit by this with a friend of mine as soon as she published something in the Foundry, then decided to re-log after she couldn't find it in the Review section.
Except they advertised it as basically a "Demo", one without character-wipe at launch. You really expect people to treat this as what "Beta-testing" really is? You have way too much faith in humanity.